Ezekiel 29:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: ”

• Ezekiel 29:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Ezekiel 29-32. Oracle against Egypt. Next and last to be denounced is Egypt, the great rival of Babylon, and consequently the opponent of Yahweh's purpose. The separate oracles were written either...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Son of man . See note on Ezekiel 2:1 . Pharaoh . Namely, Pharaoh Hophra, called Apries by the Greeks. Compare Jeremiah 44:30 . He besieged and captured Gaza ( Jeremiah 47:1 ); attacked Zidon and...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: Set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt - This was Pharaoh-hophra or Pharaoh-apries, whom w...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: Set thy face against Pharaoh - a common name of all the kings of Egypt, meaning the su...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Destruction of the Crocodile Pharaoh is compared to the crocodile of the Nile. God will drag him forth with hooks, and cast him, with the fish that stick to his scales, into the wilderness, as...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1-21 ; Ezekiel 30:1-26 ; Ezekiel 31:1-18 ; Ezekiel 32:1-32 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power cherishing projects of universal dominion. Once...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Ezekiel then uttered the doom of one. Egypt had been the principal foe of the people of God, and against her were uttered seven prophecies, which are placed here in an order of purpose rather than in...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here are sad things to be done for the humbling of Egypt, and which God will certainly accomplish. But what I particularly beg the Reader to observe, because it is indeed the general cause the Lord a...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt ,.... Pharaoh was a name common to all the kings of Egypt; the name of this king was Pharaohhophra, Jeremiah 44:30 , and who, by Herodotus x,...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: Ver. 2. Set thy face against Pharaoh. ] This was Pharaohhophra, whom Herodotus a calleth...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Set thy face against Pharaoh Pharaoh being a common name to all the kings of Egypt, this prince was called Pharaoh-hophra: by way of distinction, by Jeremiah 44:30 , and Apries by Herodotus. The w...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Pride of Pharaoh; The Ruin of Pharaoh. B. C. 589.       1 In the tenth year, in the tenth mon...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Set thy face: see Ezekiel 20:46 , Ezekiel 21:2 . Pharaoh; Hophra, as the Scripture styles him, Jeremiah 44:30 ; the Greek authors call him Apries, and Vaphres: most like he was grandson to...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE FIRST OF FOUR Chapter S DIRECTED AGAINST EGYPT (Chap. 29) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“Pharaoh, a monarch with whom the Hebrews were frequently in contact, is represented as vaunting in the security of hi...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 29:2 . Set thy face against Pharaoh. Against the dragon, the alligator, for the Nile once had alligators. The figurative language here is very majestic, and calculated to impress the Egypt...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezekiel 29:1 In the tenth year , etc. The precision with which the dates of the several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in Ezekiel 29:17 ; Ezekiel 3...

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Destruction of Pharaoh's Power and the Subsequent Restoration of Egypt

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• Ezekiel 29:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 20:46 ; Ezekiel 21:2 ; Ezekiel 25:2 ; Ezekiel 28:21 ; Ezekiel 28:22 ; Ezekiel 32:32 ; Ezekiel 6:2 ; Isaiah 19:17 ; Isaiah 20:1-6 ; Jeremiah 25:18 ; Jeremiah 25:19 ; Jeremiah 43:8-...

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